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Posts by: Georgia Christgau

Georgia Christgau learned to write while on staff at America's Only Rock 'n Roll magazine, Creem in Detroit, Michigan, and was an editor at New York City's Village Voice newspaper. She teaches English in a public high school in Long Island City, Queens. For the past two years she has been a presenter in Seattle, Washington, at Experience Music Project's annual Pop Conference, where she has delivered papers about the late rock critic Ellen Willis and about a multicultural high school dance club.
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“These Are Not Your Children”: The Wire’s eighth graders and their fate at Edward Tillman Middle School

by Georgia Christgau • 29 May 09
Journal: Issues | The Wire Files [4]

The Wire holds fans in its weary grip, surveying the broken streets and systems of modern day East Baltimore. Its naturalistic tradition is full of heart — Theodore Drieser’s lost Sister Carrie of 100 years ago comes to mind, or…